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Marc Koralnik |
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INDIANS ON VACATION
From one of Canada's most beloved and celebrated writers, a funny and heartbreaking story about one couple's love-hate relationship with travel, their search for an Indigenous family inheritance, and the demons that haunt us all.
Mimi and Bird are the ultimate odd couple: She loves to travel; he would rather stay home. She is playful and adventurous; he is suffering from ill health and plagued by demons. And while he would rather pretend the demons don't exist, Mimi has named them for him: There's Eugene, otherwise known as Self-Loathing; Kitty, aka Cat, for Catastrophizing; Didi and Desi, for Depression and Despair; and finally, Chip, for that big you-know-what on your shoulder. Thomas King has been awarded the 2022 Pierre Berton Award, celebrating those who have brought Canadian history to a wider audience.
Inspired by a handful of old postcards sent by a relative nearly a hundred years ago, Mimi has convinced Bird to travel to Europe. Her Uncle Leroy disappeared with the family medicine bundle more than a century ago; they are following the clues in his postcards as they search for the missing bundle of family mementoes.
Masterfully written and every bit as charming and sly as it is poignant and humane, Indians on Vacation is a fictional journey to Prague that entertains even as it unveils a complicated history, both personal and political.
THOMAS KING is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, scriptwriter, and photographer. His critically acclaimed, bestselling fiction includes Medicine River; Green Grass, Running Water; One Good Story, That One; Truth and Bright Water; A Short History of Indians in Canada; The Back of the Turtle (winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction); The Inconvenient Indian (winner of the RBC Taylor Prize); the DreadfulWater mystery series, most recently Obsidian; and poetry collection 77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin. A Member of the Order of Canada and the recipient of a National Aboriginal Achievement Award, King lives in Guelph, Ontario.
Inspired by a handful of old postcards sent by a relative nearly a hundred years ago, Mimi has convinced Bird to travel to Europe. Her Uncle Leroy disappeared with the family medicine bundle more than a century ago; they are following the clues in his postcards as they search for the missing bundle of family mementoes.
Masterfully written and every bit as charming and sly as it is poignant and humane, Indians on Vacation is a fictional journey to Prague that entertains even as it unveils a complicated history, both personal and political.
THOMAS KING is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, scriptwriter, and photographer. His critically acclaimed, bestselling fiction includes Medicine River; Green Grass, Running Water; One Good Story, That One; Truth and Bright Water; A Short History of Indians in Canada; The Back of the Turtle (winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction); The Inconvenient Indian (winner of the RBC Taylor Prize); the DreadfulWater mystery series, most recently Obsidian; and poetry collection 77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin. A Member of the Order of Canada and the recipient of a National Aboriginal Achievement Award, King lives in Guelph, Ontario.
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Published 2020-09-01 by HarperCollins Canada |